[Neurons] FW: 2023 Neurons #11 INTRODUCING META-EXPERIENCES

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2023 Neurons #11

February 27, 2023

Experience Series #7

 

INTRODUCING META-EXPERIENCES

                                                          

Experiences can occur at various levels of the mind.  The most obvious, and
even undeniable experiences, occur at the primary level of the empirical
senses.  Here you and I see, hear, feel, small, and taste things.  And as we
do, these are the components of our primary states of mind and emotion.
These are our primary experiences and from these, we build up all of our
higher level experiences.

 

Primary experiences is what you encounter in your interaction with the
outside world of things, processes, people, environments, etc.  And if human
life is anything-it is a set of wild and wonderful and also ugly and hurtful
experiences.  Primary experiences answer the questions- What happened to you
at school?  At home?  With your friends?  When you study?  When you talk?
When you run and play?  When you create?

 

First, there is what happens to you.  But as I have noted, what happens to
you does not "mean" anything in and of itself.  As the meaning-maker, you
have to interpret what happens to you. And the interpretation that you
create then becomes the experience that you experience within your
mind-body-emotion system.  Now we are at the first level of a
meta-experience.  Your interpreting of information and of the happenings in
your life, that is your own unique meta-experience.

 

And amazingly, you interpret it up the levels. You interpret it layer upon
layer of thoughts, emotions, memories, references, imaginations, decisions,
etc.  As you do, you then create a matrix of meanings made up of so many
aspects of the meta place that you live inside of.  I say "amazingly"
because most of your meta-layering of meanings and interpretations occurs
outside of your conscious awareness. Outside, that is, until you bring it
into your awareness and become mindful, which of course is what we focus on
in Neuro-Semantics.  And we do that so that you can take charge of your
meaning-making and therefore of your meta-experiences.

 

Asking about and getting answers from you about your experiences, about
"what happened to you?" is easy and natural.  Asking and getting answers
about your meta-experiences is not so easy and natural.  Well, it is natural
in that you have the inner capacity for it.  You have your self-reflexive
consciousness by which you reflect back onto yourself, your thoughts, your
emotions, the things that happen to you.  But without some training, some
meta-learning and some meta-thinking, you won't have much access to this
inner real of your neuro-linguistic system.

 

To learn to use your self-reflexive consciousness effectively to empower
your capacities and enable you to truly take charge of your life, you have
to learn to use your meta-functions.  These  include meta-thinking-thinking
about your thinking so that you can quality control your thinking and do
clear and precise critical thinking.  It includes meta-learning-learning
about learning, how you learn, what's the best way to learn, the blocks and
deficiencies of learning so that you can avoid them, etc.  It includes
meta-reading and meta-writing-learning how words work, how to read
effectively and how to write so that you truly take charge of the process of
transferring ideas to paper or screen.  It includes
meta-communicating-communicating about your words, what you are doing with
them, how you are using them, their neuro-linguistic effects inside your
body and on others, etc.

 

We have just completed the Learing Genius and the Writing Genius trainings
here in Cairo Egypt.  Several participants with Masters Degrees commented,
"I wish I had known these when I was in University!  I would have done a
thousand times better."  Commenting on that with my wife Geraldine, we
dreamed out loud about what if we could get every college student and every
high school student to experience these Neuro-Semantics  trainings so that
they could learn to truly manage the meta-functions of thinking, learning,
reading, writing, and communicating?  We could facilitate a whole generation
of people who could manage their higher meta-experiences.

 

Meta-experiences determine your life, your skills, your emotions, your
health and fitness, your career, your relationships, etc.  It is what is in
the highest part of your mind-your meta place- that is the most
determinative factor of your life.  Not your parents, not your environment,
not your genes, not your luck or lack of luck-it is your self-reflexivity by
which you create your inner life.  Interested?  Contact a Meta-Coach or a
Meta-Trainer.  We are the meta people and we're here to help.

 

 

Follow up on previous articles


About Placebos: a great video that Nicola Riva sent to me of a medical
doctor research from Harvard Medical School:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbu6DolnUfM 

 

About Woke- An excellent video about Wokism: its history and its current
ideology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4dUbbVxSc 

 

              




 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS Executive Director

P.O. Box 8

Clifton Colorado 81520 USA

(970) 523-7877

drhall at acsol.net  



 

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